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Noge and Yokohama in Musashi Province
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Description
Pine trees on a spit of land push forward into the foreground, while boats sail away into the distance.The decreasing size of the sails emphasizes their progress away from the viewer. Hiroshige was familiar with Western ideas of natralism and perspective and absorbed some Western elements into his work.
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Details
- Series
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- designed 1858, published 1858 – 1859
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826 - 1869) (designer)
- Associated people
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Tsutaya Kichizō (active c. 1830 - 1880) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 55.5 x 40.3 cm (height x width)
print 36.1 x 23.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4383
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001), no. 7 on p. 11, illus. p. 20 pl. 7
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Mount Fuji
Pine trees on a spit of land, a matsubara, push forward into the foreground, while the diminishing size of the sails emphasise the distance. Musashi is the name of the great plain on which much of Tokyo is built.
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